Microsoft smartphone partners are expected to deliver about 30 new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices by the end of 2009, including models from HTC and To shiba shown for the first time at a Microsoft Open House in New York City today. Read more
Microsoft Kin phones get price drop on Verizon
If you’re dying to get your social networking on the go, you’ll be happy to know that Verizon Wireless is dropping the price of the Microsoft Kin phones. I still don’t think this will be enough to make these handsets a success, though.
The turtle-like Kin One will now cost $29, down from about $50 and the Kin Two will be cut in half to $50. Of course, these are after a new, two-year contract with a data plan (more on that later).
ABI Research: 75% of all WCDMA base stations will be HSPA+ capable by 2015
ABI Research argues that despite the fact that everyone’s all about 4G these days, most carriers around the world are first looking to upgrade their networks to HSPA+ and then eventually switch to LTE. By the end of this year, 20 LTE networks are set to go live, but by the end 2015 only 11% of installed base stations will be LTE.
RIM Buys Mobile Software Developer Viigo
Research In Motion has purchased Viigo, a developer of software that delivers syndicated content to mobile phones, according to a brief note on Viigo’s Web site.
Viigo users open the software client on their phones to find a range of information such as weather reports, stock quotes, sports information, podcasts and news headlines. The software is customizable, so users can choose headlines from preferred news sources and set locations for weather information.
DROID ERIS By HTC Available Exclusively From Verizon Wireless
Basking Ridge, NJ and Bellevue, WA — Beginning Nov. 6, DROID ERIS™ by HTC will invade Verizon Wireless Communications Stores across the United States, bringing the power of the Android™ platform and the Verizon Wireless network together. DROID ERIS by HTC combines the popular Android platform with HTC Sense™, a user experience from HTC that makes it easy for customers to stay close to one another and create an individualized mobile experience tailored specifically to their needs.
Microsoft Shows Windows Mobile 6.5 Smartphones
Smartphone Palooza: 10 Hot Touchscreens Compared
July 2, 2009 by admin
Filed under News, TOP Ranking
Curious how today’s latest touchscreen smartphones compare? With 10 popular models to choose from, it’s hard to keep track. But our charts will help you find the perfect touchscreen phone.
Keeping tabs on the latest cell phone models can be a full-time job, especially given the number of cell phones announced by Apple, Palm, Nokia, and HTC (including, most recently, the BlackBerry-like T-Mobile Dash) over the past few months. But thanks to PC World, you don’t have to hunt down and compare the various touchscreen smartphones yourself.
Group Pitches Linux for Free Netbooks From Mobile Carriers
Mobile carriers may start giving away netbooks for free, and Linux-based application stores could help them profit by doing it, the head of a Linux advocacy group told Chinese companies on Monday.
The move by carriers to sell netbooks at a discount and seek revenue from later application downloads is an opportunity for Linux, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said at a Beijing forum. He urged Chinese and global companies to consider offering devices and download stores based on Linux.
BTCL call charge 30 paisa per minute from June 1
The government has undertaken a project styled ‘Internet Information Network Expansion (Info- Bahon)’ involving Taka 1.38 billion for bringing all districts under internet facilities at a reasonable cost and easy process, reports BSS. Work for the project, that would be completed within one and a half months, would begin this month. Besides, subscribers of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) can talk at the rate of Taka 0.30 per minute through the state-run land phone network across the country from June 1. Read more
Govt to reduce SIM tax below Tk 500
The government is likely to reduce the tax on SIM (Subscribers’ Identification Module) card to below Tk 500 from existing Tk 800 to help the industry recover from its sluggish growth. It might make the announcement in the upcoming budget, on June 11, against the backdrop of repeated plea of the telecom companies to salvage the sector. The growth rate of mobile phone business dropped to 30 per cent in 2008 from 103 per cent in 2006. It was 62 per cent in 2007. Read more
Wintel to set up migrants’ resource centre
A telecom solutions provider is setting up Bangladesh’s first migrants’ resource centre aiming to cater to the needs of millions of overseas job-seekers, the head of Wintel Limited said Tuesday. Faisal Alim, managing director, said the country’s largest value-added service provider for the telecom industry is now awaiting approval from the telecom regulator BTRC for a “premium” code to operate the centre. “Our aim is to open the centre early next month. We’re just waiting for the approval for a four-digit code to run it,” Mr Alim said. Read more